Transition & transformation in Port Melbourne, Fishermans Bend & Docklands
Will the herons return? Just one week after the fire in Montague, a thick black smoke plume visible across the Bay signalled a fire in the west. Shortly after 5 am on Thursday 30 August, MFB fire crews arrived at an out of control blaze at a warehouse on Somerville Road in West Footscray. The […]
The domed building sits to one side of the Mission to Seafarers – apart but connected. The concrete dome contrasts with the red tiled roof and more domestic looking Mission buildings designed by Walter Butler. Funds to build a gymnasium for seafarers when in Port was raised by members of the Ladies’ Harbour Lights Guild. […]
We continue where we left off last week, at Swallow & Ariell in Port Melbourne. When Ariell died, founder Thomas Swallow went into partnership with his son-in-law, Frederick Derham. Like Swallow, Derham was civic minded. He was a councillor and Mayor of Sandridge and went on to represent Port Melbourne in the Legislative Assembly from […]
more cars this week in Port Places Last week, the first sod was turned on Lilix, a new apartment development in Thistlethwaite St, signalling a new phase of development in Fishermans Bend following the release of the Fishermans Bend Framework in October 2018. The marketing for Lilix references its South Melbourne, rather than its Montague, connections even though […]
The Victorian election is on Saturday but the die may already be cast. A record 970,454 people had already voted by Wednesday 21 November – compared to 585,869 in 2014.1 The seat of Albert Park is held by Labor’s Martin Foley on a margin of 3%. He first won the seat in 2007 at a […]
Two brand new and almost identical ships can now be seen moving across the horizon from the shore. Toll’s Tasmanian Achiever 11 and the Victorian Reliance 11 entered the Bass Strait service on 1 March. They are the first new Australian flagged vessels to have been commissioned for a very long time. The ships, built […]
We continue where we left off last week, at Swallow & Ariell in Port Melbourne. When Ariell died, founder Thomas Swallow went into partnership with his son-in-law, Frederick Derham. Like Swallow, Derham was civic minded. He was a councillor and Mayor of Sandridge and went on to represent Port Melbourne in the Legislative Assembly from […]
more cars this week in Port Places Last week, the first sod was turned on Lilix, a new apartment development in Thistlethwaite St, signalling a new phase of development in Fishermans Bend following the release of the Fishermans Bend Framework in October 2018. The marketing for Lilix references its South Melbourne, rather than its Montague, connections even though […]
The domed building sits to one side of the Mission to Seafarers – apart but connected. The concrete dome contrasts with the red tiled roof and more domestic looking Mission buildings designed by Walter Butler. Funds to build a gymnasium for seafarers when in Port was raised by members of the Ladies’ Harbour Lights Guild. […]